Animal Farm Quotes

“Four legs good two legs bad”(Ch 3, Pg 17) is a quote from an animal farm showing that animals who walk on four legs are their friends while two-legged humans are evil. Animal Farm is a book written in 1945 by George Orwell. It's about a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, accessible, and happy. Although Napoleon controls the animals after the rebellion, Man is the true enemy of the animals because he is selfish, controlling, and does not allow dissent. Napoleon is very selfish just like man. He only cares about having all power to himself and does not listen to anyone else, he inhabited this from Mr. Jones. After chasing off the snowball with his dogs, Napoleon

He makes the animals think that everything he says is true, he likes to take charge of everything. For example, Napoleon trains a litter of puppies to be loyal to him: when they are fully grown, he uses the dogs to chase Snowball, his main rival, off the farm. After Napoleon's dogs chase a snowball he makes a manipulating speech, “He announced that from now on the Sunday morning Meetings would come to an end. They were unnecessary, he said, and wasted time. In the future, all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. These would meet in private and afterward communicate their decisions to others. The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing ‘Beasts of England’, and receive their orders for the week; but there would be no more debates.” (45) Napoleon was manipulating the animals in this speech, before the speech he used the dogs that he raised to chase Snowball off the farm so he could start building the windmill. For instance, if any of the animals tried to speak up during this speech, Napoleon would stop them immediately and therefore would not let them have their own

When all of the animals spoke up about what they did, they were all killed by Napoleon. The three hens speak up and confess that they tried to make a rebellion, “They, too, were slaughtered.”(67) The goose then came forward about having the secret six ears, then the sheep confessed how they urinated in the drinking pool, “They were all slain on the spot. And so the tale of confessions and executions went on until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet.”(67 All the animals who spoke up about what they did wrong were slain by Napoleon in the same spot. Even though they were confessing they were still killed. Thus even though Napoleon was supposed to be helping the animals, in the end, he turned out just like the